Lose two, theyve now lost two. Alicia yeah. And im Alicia Shah Acuna in denver. Nancy pelosi and other democrats also pushing back today. Meanwhile, the president offering more insight on his potential pick. Mark meredith is at the white house with the details. Huh, mark. Reporter President Trump is making it clear hes ready to go to battle over his looming Supreme Court nominee. He didnt say much about it on friday night when the news first broke, but he had plenty to say last night in fayetteville, North Carolina. I will be putting forth a nominee next week, it will be a woman [cheers and applause] it will be a woman, a very talented, very brilliant woman. [cheers and applause] we havent chosen yet, but we have numerous women on the list. I built this incredible list of brilliant people. Reporter and while the president was sure fired up about husband chance to fill the seat, he also took a moment during that rally in North Carolina to pay his respects to justice guns burg and her fa
Decision bolsters the republican efforts to confirm a replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election. Now just six weeks away. Six weeks from today. The president said he will tell us who we intend to nominate saturday. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. It was a relief or President Trump today to find out that he at least had the votes to bring a nominee forward and while it is still unclear at this point whether a final vote in the full senate will take place before election day, republicans will move as quickly as they can to get that done. The timing for the announcement of President Trumps nominee is likely saturday afternoon before he leaves for Pennsylvania Campaign rally. President trump today indicated he has all but made up his mind on who it will be. I would say im very close to making a decision in my own mind and im going to reveal it on saturday. Max sources tell fox news a top contender continues
On that part of the country. Im coming to you from steel city, so this is very important here. Ive always supported the Steel Industry and i support our steelworkers and our steelworkers can compete with anybody in the world, as long as the Playing Field is level but that Playing Field has been slanted. President trumps just trying to restore some balance to the Playing Field here and i want to help him. Im ready to go down there and be his wing man and help im implement that agenda. Julie molly is in moon township, pennsylvania where the president is about to speak minutes from now. Molly, i can tell the crowd is getting pretty excited. Reporter there are a lot of Great America great hats here, julie. This is the 20th rally in pennsylvania, his fifth outside of the pittsburgh area since he started driving toward the white house in june of 2015. This is a pretty special appearance specifically for a
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Running the Trump Organization. It worked that way in the campaign and in the white house. People like gary cohn, one of his chief economic advisers, peter navarro, he would have them battle it out about tariffs. Navarros side ended in winning. Thats also been trumps longheld view about tariffs. Gary cohn later resigned, mostly because of that decision made by the president. But he is someone who, in our reporting, shows in recent weeks hes grown more and more frustrated with some of the advice from his straf. Hes also grown more and more frustrated more of his staff is leaving, but at the same time, he feels a little liberated, hes been telling people close to him that he wants to trust his instincts, trust his gut. He thinks thats what won him the election in 2016 and thats what he waunnts to rely on more and more in the white house, and were seeing that this week in particular, the decision on tariffs and the surprising decision on north korea. How much does that thrill you, that he
Im Frances Rivera at msnbc World Headquarters in new york and at this hour were following breaking news out of orlando where singer Christina Grimmie a former contestant on nbcs the voice and youtube star was shot and killed last night. Grimmie had just finished a performance at the plaza live theater in orlando. She was signing autographs outside when a man walked up to her and opened fire. Based on our investigation thus far, it appears that a white male, 21 years of age, approached Christina Grimmie. This was after the show, so this white male approached her and opened fire, striking her. At that almost immediately her brother Marcus Grimmie tackled the suspect to the ground. Shortly after that the suspect killed himself. Were live in orlando with the latest and, sara, what more have we learned about the suspect . Reporter well, good afternoon, frances. Right now authorities are holding off on releasing his name, but they say he traveled to orlando from another city in florida with